The Virginia Department of Education has supported the Children’s Engineering program for 20 years under the Instruction: Career and Technology Education Division. The Children’s Engineering program is full of engineering experiences for elementary students that will bring STEM (and more) into your classroom that aligns at the Adaptation and Infusion levels of the NKCPS Instructional Framework.

Quoted from the Children’s Engineering, Teacher resource guide: “Each experience is intended to reinforce specific VA Standards of Learning. Additionally, these experiences have been correlated to the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. The experiences promote critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and they build upon a child's capability to retain content described in the Standards of Learning.”

Students get the opportunity to “engineer” a solution to a problem. All of the example experiences have been reviewed and practiced by teachers in Virginia and each free experience requires the students to solve a problem using the engineering design process, with minimal materials!

Whole School Membership in the Children’s Engineering Council is available until August 2016 for $125.00. All teachers in the school will have access to the Children’s Engineering Journal and more activities provided by the membership. Look at this example of the “Bag Portfolio” project for 5th grade English SOL 5.3 and 5.7 https://goo.gl/EWPSwn

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I grew up on Long Island, enjoying the water and NYC. I have done science research, legal research,taught science and now I am a technology resource teacher. I am passionate about learning, teaching, science (and yoga!)